Marriage Quotes

I hate work. That's why I got married.

Peg Bundy

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

Jim DeMint

Miss Bingley's congratulations to her brother, on his approaching marriage, were all that was affectionate and insincere.

Jane Austen

About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be...the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are.

Stephen King

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Katharine Hepburn

I love the concept of togetherness and the entwinement of marriage.

William Shatner

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

Lewis Grizzard

Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

Lewis Grizzard

My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment.

Nadia Comaneci

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Margaret Sanger

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

Tony Campolo

We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise.

Raquel Welch

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.

Rita Rudner

She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was it marriage? If one liked other people, was it marriage? And finally, if one still wished, more than anything in the whole world, to write poetry, was it marriage? She had her doubts.

Virginia Woolf

For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.

Al Goldstein

Were kisses all the joys in bed,/One woman would another wed.

William Shakespeare

Progress of a marriage: There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.

Irving Layton

We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.

Brother Lawrence

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

Steve Chabot

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

Barack Obama